The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-02-25

recently. Head and arms were missing,
and circumstances pointed to another
shocking tragedy.
DEANS dynamite works at Eldred, near
Bradford, Pa, blew up recently. Five dwell
ling houses were destroyed and three ladies
were injured.
PITTSBURGH iron manufacturers deny tina!
they have sent money to Canada to influence
the coming Parliamentary elections.
A YOUNG girl and . man lost their lives
at Rochester, N. Y, during the storm Of
the 18th. They were standing on bridge
when 1t went down and were swept into the
torrent.
TIE flint glass bottle manufacturers have
advanced prices ten per cent.
In the Lester Butler trial at New York
the jury found for the defendant.
THE Goodyear Rubber Company, at Nau
gatuck, Conn, has shut down indefinitely.
AN examination of the Susquehanna and
Tidewater canal at Lancaster, Pa, shows
the danger by ice to be much greater thar
first reported. 1t IS estimated that $lOO. Cox
will be required to repair the damage and
put the canal IN boating condition.
ITALIAN laborers gave trouble to police
officers at Ware, Mass, recently. In the
melee an Italian named Lavcro was fatally
wounded.
Dun & Co.'s report Of the 18th says:
business failures during the last seven
days number, for the United States, 222
for Canada, 80; against 267 last week and
2S6 the corresponding week of last year.
Failures are large and on the increase"
THE trunk lines, at a meeting in New
York City, made arrangements for re-
| vision Of rates to fit the Interstate Com
merce act.
The lower house of the New York Leg
islature has defeated the bill to exempt
women from the death penalty for murder.
Y1.A WEST.
Boston CoRBETT, who slew Wilkes
Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln,
and who lately was appointed assistant
doorkeeper of the Kansas House at Topeka,
drew knife on some colored men and at
tempted to stab them, He also drew a re-
volver on the sergeant-at-arms, who at
tempted his arrest. He was finally dis
armed and lodged in Jail 1t was generally
thought he was crazy.
| AT Waterman, Ill, on the Chicago &
Iowa railway the other morning the Du-
buQue train, with two sleepers on the end,
had just passed the station when the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy train which fol-
|
! the sleeping cars. The only casualty was
| to the engineer, who had his leg broken.
HEAVY transforms were reported from
Los Angeles, Cal, on the 18th. Several
| washouts occurred.
IT is expected that the late commissioners
Of Cook County, Illinois, will soon be in
| dicted for corruption. States Attorney
| Grinnell claims to have strong case
| against them.
j. E. STILES and H. D. Dean were ar
rested IN San Francisco on the 10th, charged
| with being concerned in the recent dyna-
mite outrageS on the street car lines. EX-
plosives and caps were found on Stiles and
bomb material was found in the residence
of Dean.
THE snow-sheds ut Blue Canon, New, col
lapsed under the pressure of snow recently.
A snow-plow and seven engines were
ditched and the conductor, brakeman, road
master and one other employee were mis-
sing
|. The Ohio Legislature has repealed the
law providing for separate schools for col
ored children.
A MAN giving the name of John Cole was
arrested recently at Marietta, O., on suspi-
cIon of being the prisoner rescued at Ra-
VIENNA few nights before. A description
WAS SeIlt W SlcNclduu anu al UNSUCCESSFUL
| attempt was made to photograph him. At
night he broke from his cell, released all
the prisoners and fed. In the morning a
dispatch came from Cleveland saying he
was undoubtedly the man wanted.
On has been struck at Bryan, Williams
County, Ohio, flowing at the rate of 100 bar
rels an hour.
THE commissioners of Kings County,
Washington Territory, have asked Con-
gress TO repay them a. 16S expended during
the anti-Chinese disturbances in November
1885, and February, 1856.
ROBERT BONNER. it was reported has
declined an offer of Sl0O, for the trotter
Maud s.
THOMAS HANLoN, who was rejected by lie
Senate as United States Internal Revenue
Agent for the Seventh Indiana district, shot
and MORALLY wounded Lewis Sicar, at
Louisville, KY, recently.
THE general passenger agents of the
Western. Southwestern and Northwestern
Passenger Associations, in session at Chi
cago considering the Interstate Commerce
law, have decided against the present sys-
TEN of issuing thousand-mile and theatrical
passes.
WARDEN HOWARD, of the penitentiary at
Jefferscnville, Ind, is accused of defalca-
tons ranging between $4,000 and $4,000.
FREDERICKTowN, Mo-, reported heavy
shock of earthquake on the night of the
18th.
ANOTHER blizzard and snowstorm was re-
ported in Dakota and Minnesota on the
18th. Great suffering was experienced on
account of the lack of fuel.
FIVE alleged fraud workers in last No
vember's election in st. Louis were arrested
on the 18th. Two were clerks and three re-
peaters.
AT Des Moines. Iowa, the other day, Con-
stable Pierce created a lively sensation by
the seizure of a car load of st. Louis beer,
shipped over the Wabash to Hurlbut, Hess
4 Co., the firm having no permit to sell. /:
An attempt was made to regain possession
of the contra band fluid by replevin. but the !
constable held his seizure and placed it III |
store to test the question.
THE engine and car of freight train on |
the Chicago, Santa Fe q California railroad !
while crossing the Desplaines river, two |
miles west of Joliet, H., recently were pre- !
cipitated into the water by the falling of |
the bridge caused by high water. William |
T. Boyle, of Baltimore, the engineer re- |
ceived scalp wound; William Grady, the |
fireman, of Streator, received internal in
juries from which he died shortly after
JOHN BAUGHMAN, aged eighty seven, and |
wife. eighty-fve, wealthy couple living |
in Dalton, o., were burned to death re-
Gently.
CHARGES and counter-charges of rate
cutting have been made by the managers
of the roads constituting the Ohio river
pool
THE SOUTH.
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Carolina, was endangered recently by a
l1d |